Thursday, June 12, 2008

At last night's illustrious Energy TV Awards ceremony at the Hyatt Regency in Calgary, David Finch was named "most influential author in the oilpatch" for Pumped: Everyone's Guide to the Oilpatch. Fifth House Publisher, Charlene Dobmeier, accepted the award on Finch's behalf as he was unavailable.The Energy TV Awards is a bit of a send-up of the Academy Awards. Those of us who attended donned gowns and tuxes. A be-glittered male character escorted female guests down the patch of red carpet. Dinner was an elegant affair where the wine flowed on and jokes from the podium punctuated conversation at the tables. There was even an after-party at a nearby nightclub.The entire awards event was filmed and will be broadcast as a one hour television special. Watch the broadcast of the 2008 Energy-TV Awards on: Global TV across Canada on June 28, 2008 from 11 a.m. to noon and on CityTV in Calgary and Edmonton on July 6, 2008 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Recently, Pumpedwas also shortlisted for an Alberta Publisher's award for best non-fiction book of the year.

David Finch

About David Finch

Born in Cuba to missionary parents, David Finch is a historical consultant living in Calgary. With more than twenty years of consulting experience, David is also the author of several books on the oil industry, including Hell’s Half Acre, and histories of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, the Canadian Society of Exploration Geologists, and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen. He is a regular contributor to The Calgary Herald and Alberta Oil: The Magazine. David received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Dedicated Investigation and Professional Scholarship in the Study of Canadian Petroleum History from the Petroleum History Society of Calgary in 1999.